thors, and in the Arts and Sciences, and that you have laid fome Foundation in English Divinity, from reading Sermons; and that you have a general View of the Controverfies on Foot from the Books mention'd, and some Insight into Church-Hiftory; next (if not done already) learn Hebrew: Then take in Hand fome good Commentator, Grotius or Patrick, and read it through. You may take Jofephus's Hiftory along with it, and Dupin's Canon of the Old Teftament. From thence proceed to the New Testament, which also read carefully over with fome Commentator, Grotius, Hammond, or Whitby; the laft I fhould prefer to be read through, and the others to be confulted on Occafion. From thence go on to the Church-Writers, taking them in Order of Time; first seeing a Character of their Works in Dupin, or Cave, or Bull: And let Bingham's Ecclefiaftical Antiquities be confulted, where he treats of fuch Matters as you meet with, that have any Difficulty in them. Thus go on till you come to the fourth Century, at leaft, if your Time, Business, and other Circumstances will permit. If not, you must be contented to take the easier and fhorter Way; and study fuch Books as may more immediately ferve to furnish you as a Preacher: Which may be thefe that follow, befides those before-mention'd. Bull's Latin Works, Fol. Grab. Edit. Nelfon's Life of Bull, with his English Works, in four Volumes Oliavo. Nelfon's Feafts and Fafts. Stanhope's Epiftles and Gofpels, 4 Volumes: Kettle Kettlewell's Measures of Obedience. on the Sacrament. Practical Believer. Scot's Chriftian Life, 5 Vols. F. Paul's Hiftory of the Council of Trent. Cofin's Canon of Scripture. Stilling fleet's Cafes, 2 Vols. Norris's Humility and Prudence, 2 Vols. Wilkins's Natural Religion. Dean Sherlock's Works, 8 Vols. Oftervald's Caufes of Corruption. Sherlock, Bishop of London, on Prophecy, Tryal of the Witneffes, &c. Weft on the Refurrection. Obfervations on the Converfion of St. Paul. Wollafton's Religion of Nature. Conybeare's Defence of Reveal'd Religion. Butler's Analogy. > Watts's Scripture Hiftory. Archdeacon St. George's Examination for Holy THE RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF BOTH THE UNIVERSITIES AND OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE IN PARTICULAR DEFEN.DED IN A CHARGE TO THE GRAND JURY AT THE HELD IN AND FOR THE TOWN OF THE TENTH DAY OF OCTOBER 1768. ALSO AN ARGUMENT IN THE CASE OF THE COLLEGES OF CHRIST and EMMANUEL. BY JAMES MARRIOTT, LL.D. CAMBRIDGE, Printed by J. ARCHDEACON, Printer to the UNIVERSITY: Sold by T. & J. MERRILL, and J. WOODYER in CAMBRIDGE J.FLETCHER and D. PRINCE at OXFORD; J. RIVINGTON, B. WHITE, JOHNSON & Co. J. BEECROFT, and J. WORRALL in LONDON. 1769. For the Benefit of the HOSPITAL at CAMBRIDGE. (Price 1.) IT is owing to certain mifreprefentations that the following charge is printed: although the Perfon who delivered it as a Magiftrate could have wished to have avoided the submitting to Strict perufal words spoke without preparation, on a fudden occafion, when he was fpecially requested by the reft of the Bench to attend on account of a profecution of much confequence, It will however be a very great fatisfaction if the publication may serve a general purpose, and keep up for the future in the minds of the inhabitants of this place, the ideas which were meant to be impreffed concerning the fubmiffion due to the good government of the Laws in general, and the preservation of the most invaluable Rights and Privileges to this Univerfity in particular. |